#  Elisa New 

Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature, Emerita

 

 

 



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Education: B.A., Brandeis University (1980)  
M.A., Columbia University (1982)  
Ph.D., Columbia University (1988)

Interests: American poetry; American Literature-1900; Religion and Literature; Jewish Literature.

Selected Works:  
The Line’s Eye: Poetic Experience, American Sight (1999); The Regenerate Lyric: Theology and Innovation in American Poetry (1993).



 

 

 





 

 

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